Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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We are all stardust.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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